May 17, 2024
Politics & Law
Tampa Bay: Full Swing
Just about every sector of the economy, from financial services to tourism to technology, is winning applause for bringing more jobs to Tampa Bay.
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Published on 4/1/1996
Southeast: By Sea And By Air
With about 25% of the state's jobs in their backyard, economic development groups in Southeast Florida are building on the region's strengths in trade and tourism.
By Mike Clary
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Published on 4/1/1996
Southwest: The Two-Class Economy
To some, Southwest is a lush retirement resort of golf courses and endless beaches; to others, it's like a third world economy.
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Published on 4/1/1996
Economic Yearbook: Preparing for a Soft Landing
Attracting new industry to Florida has become a hard-sell, but falling interest rates should help the state avoid recession.
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Published on 4/1/1996
Not Just Numbers
Bill Lynch knows the bicycle and moped business from the inside out. For the past six years, he and brother Dan have run Action Mopeds, Scooters & Bicycles, a St....
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Published on 4/1/1996
Tax Cap Fever
Free from income and estate taxes, and able to count on tourists for prodigious amounts of revenue, Floridians enjoy one of the lightest tax burdens in the U.S. But the...
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Published on 4/1/1996
Readers
High Speed RailRegarding your February cover story on high speed rail travel, I have been very impressed with the depth of your article - very unbiased and informative. This to...
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Published on 4/1/1996
Key Ingredients
Getting there still can be half the fun when you're riding the ribbon of water-flanked road to Key West, but only if you know where to stop for out-of-the-ordinary meals...
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Published on 4/1/1996
You're (Not) Entitled
Remember all that huffing and puffing from Washington we were forced to endure during the past year? Newt and his freshman Republican minions accused the White House of stealing from...
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Published on 4/1/1996
International Business: Siemens' New Strategy
For one of Florida's largest international employers, Siemens Stromberg-Carlson, Congress' February decision to deregulate local telephone service should usher in a period of great opportunity - and peril. Siemens Stromberg-Carlson...
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Published on 4/1/1996
Around the State
FloridaFort Worth, Texas-based Color Tile plans to close 234 unprofitable company-owned stores located throughout the U.S. Statewide, 18 stores will close, including seven in southeast Florida, five in Tampa Bay...
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Published on 4/1/1996
Putting Down Roots
"Everything works to their advantage," muses Amanda Lauck about negotiating a lease with property owners. She and partner Catherine Olsen, both 30, opened C & M Central Market, a Pensacola...
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Published on 3/1/1996
The SoBe Scene
As we reported last month in Florida Trend, South Miami Beach is home to fully one-fifth of the Best Newcomers, the magazine's annual list of the finest new restaurants in...
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Published on 3/1/1996
Readers
Property TaxesI take exception to your article "Tax Burden Shifting?" in November's issue of Florida Trend. Florida TaxWatch and the Florida Department of Revenue state that Amendment 10 [to the...
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Published on 3/1/1996
Building Code Bingo
When insurers and state officials dug through the rubble left by Hurricane Andrew four years ago, they came to a surprising discovery: that the state's local building codes, supposedly designed...
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Published on 3/1/1996
Legal Trends: Limiting Liability
Has Florida's Supreme Court abolished civil fraud, seven centuries after the first English case recognized it? Some judges and lawyers say yes. Now a case involving a former University of...
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Published on 3/1/1996
An MBA Is Not Enough
With its grand crystal chandelier and photos of the city's business elite lining the walls, the Tampa Club reeks of money and success. What better setting for the University of...
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Published on 3/1/1996
New Blood: Florida Trend's Faces of '96
New residents provide much of the creative energy for Florida's ongoing reinvention of itself. To illustrate the influence of new Floridians, Florida Trend selected a cross sample of the best,...
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Published on 3/1/1996
Getting Over The Big Blues
It was Florida's version of Camelot. A dozen years ago, Boca Raton emerged as the center of development of the personal computer, that rare invention, like the car or the...
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Published on 3/1/1996
How To Save Florida Tourism
The rest of the world is running away with Florida's markets," exclaims Tom Staed, founding chairman of the Florida Tourism Commission.These days, Staed's anxiety is shared throughout the state's tourism...
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Published on 3/1/1996
Around the State
Florida Longwood-based First Mercantile National Bank and Titusville-based Prime Bank of Central Florida agreed to become subsidiaries of First Commerce Banks of Florida, the holding company of Winter Haven-based First...
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Published on 3/1/1996
Selling Florida Short
I was watching an old movie the other night on the New York super station WWOR, which always makes me feel a little nostalgic for my hometown ("Baby battered in...
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Published on 3/1/1996
Law Of Unintended Consequences
Florida's growth management law may finally turn out to be worth more than the paper on which it is written. Since its passage in 1985, the law has actually encouraged...
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Published on 3/1/1996
You Can Build It, But Will They Come?
Florida cities keep building and expanding convention centers despite overwhelming evidence that most are financial failures and burdens to taxpayers.
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Published on 2/1/1996
Generations
After years of working hard, many small-business owners expect to pass on their successes to their children. In some businesses the one thing that would allow this to happen smoothly...
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Published on 2/1/1996
